The patch titled idetape gcc 4.1 warning fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is idetape-gcc-41-warning-fix.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> drivers/ide/ide-tape.c: In function â??idetape_copy_stage_from_userâ??: drivers/ide/ide-tape.c:2662: warning: ignoring return value of â??copy_from_userâ??, declared with attribute warn_unused_result drivers/ide/ide-tape.c: In function â??idetape_copy_stage_to_userâ??: drivers/ide/ide-tape.c:2689: warning: ignoring return value of â??copy_to_userâ??, declared with attribute warn_unused_result Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ide/ide-tape.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/ide/ide-tape.c~idetape-gcc-41-warning-fix drivers/ide/ide-tape.c --- devel/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c~idetape-gcc-41-warning-fix 2006-05-11 10:13:16.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c 2006-05-11 10:15:57.000000000 -0700 @@ -2646,7 +2646,8 @@ static idetape_stage_t *idetape_kmalloc_ return __idetape_kmalloc_stage(tape, 0, 0); } -static void idetape_copy_stage_from_user (idetape_tape_t *tape, idetape_stage_t *stage, const char __user *buf, int n) +static int idetape_copy_stage_from_user(idetape_tape_t *tape, + idetape_stage_t *stage, const char __user *buf, int n) { struct idetape_bh *bh = tape->bh; int count; @@ -2656,11 +2657,14 @@ static void idetape_copy_stage_from_user if (bh == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR "ide-tape: bh == NULL in " "idetape_copy_stage_from_user\n"); - return; + return 1; } #endif /* IDETAPE_DEBUG_BUGS */ - count = min((unsigned int)(bh->b_size - atomic_read(&bh->b_count)), (unsigned int)n); - copy_from_user(bh->b_data + atomic_read(&bh->b_count), buf, count); + count = min((unsigned int)(bh->b_size - + atomic_read(&bh->b_count)), (unsigned int)n); + if (copy_from_user(bh->b_data + atomic_read(&bh->b_count), + buf, count)) + return 1; n -= count; atomic_add(count, &bh->b_count); buf += count; @@ -2671,9 +2675,11 @@ static void idetape_copy_stage_from_user } } tape->bh = bh; + return 0; } -static void idetape_copy_stage_to_user (idetape_tape_t *tape, char __user *buf, idetape_stage_t *stage, int n) +static int idetape_copy_stage_to_user(idetape_tape_t *tape, char __user *buf, + idetape_stage_t *stage, int n) { struct idetape_bh *bh = tape->bh; int count; @@ -2683,11 +2689,12 @@ static void idetape_copy_stage_to_user ( if (bh == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR "ide-tape: bh == NULL in " "idetape_copy_stage_to_user\n"); - return; + return 1; } #endif /* IDETAPE_DEBUG_BUGS */ count = min(tape->b_count, n); - copy_to_user(buf, tape->b_data, count); + if (copy_to_user(buf, tape->b_data, count)) + return 1; n -= count; tape->b_data += count; tape->b_count -= count; @@ -2700,6 +2707,7 @@ static void idetape_copy_stage_to_user ( } } } + return 0; } static void idetape_init_merge_stage (idetape_tape_t *tape) @@ -3737,7 +3745,8 @@ static ssize_t idetape_chrdev_read (stru return (0); if (tape->merge_stage_size) { actually_read = min((unsigned int)(tape->merge_stage_size), (unsigned int)count); - idetape_copy_stage_to_user(tape, buf, tape->merge_stage, actually_read); + if (idetape_copy_stage_to_user(tape, buf, tape->merge_stage, actually_read)) + return -EFAULT; buf += actually_read; tape->merge_stage_size -= actually_read; count -= actually_read; @@ -3746,7 +3755,9 @@ static ssize_t idetape_chrdev_read (stru bytes_read = idetape_add_chrdev_read_request(drive, tape->capabilities.ctl); if (bytes_read <= 0) goto finish; - idetape_copy_stage_to_user(tape, buf, tape->merge_stage, bytes_read); + if (idetape_copy_stage_to_user(tape, buf, + tape->merge_stage, bytes_read)) + return -EFAULT; buf += bytes_read; count -= bytes_read; actually_read += bytes_read; @@ -3756,7 +3767,9 @@ static ssize_t idetape_chrdev_read (stru if (bytes_read <= 0) goto finish; temp = min((unsigned long)count, (unsigned long)bytes_read); - idetape_copy_stage_to_user(tape, buf, tape->merge_stage, temp); + if (idetape_copy_stage_to_user(tape, buf, + tape->merge_stage, temp)) + return -EFAULT; actually_read += temp; tape->merge_stage_size = bytes_read-temp; } @@ -3834,7 +3847,9 @@ static ssize_t idetape_chrdev_write (str } #endif /* IDETAPE_DEBUG_BUGS */ actually_written = min((unsigned int)(tape->stage_size - tape->merge_stage_size), (unsigned int)count); - idetape_copy_stage_from_user(tape, tape->merge_stage, buf, actually_written); + if (idetape_copy_stage_from_user(tape, tape->merge_stage, + buf, actually_written)) + return -EFAULT; buf += actually_written; tape->merge_stage_size += actually_written; count -= actually_written; @@ -3847,7 +3862,9 @@ static ssize_t idetape_chrdev_write (str } } while (count >= tape->stage_size) { - idetape_copy_stage_from_user(tape, tape->merge_stage, buf, tape->stage_size); + if (idetape_copy_stage_from_user(tape, tape->merge_stage, + buf, tape->stage_size)) + return -EFAULT; buf += tape->stage_size; count -= tape->stage_size; retval = idetape_add_chrdev_write_request(drive, tape->capabilities.ctl); @@ -3857,7 +3874,8 @@ static ssize_t idetape_chrdev_write (str } if (count) { actually_written += count; - idetape_copy_stage_from_user(tape, tape->merge_stage, buf, count); + if (idetape_copy_stage_from_user(tape, tape->merge_stage, buf, count)) + return -EFAULT; tape->merge_stage_size += count; } return (actually_written); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx are tpm_register_hardware-gcc-41-warning-fix.patch git-net.patch megaraid-gcc-41-warning-fix.patch invert-irq-migrationc-brach-prediction.patch idetape-gcc-41-warning-fix.patch profile-likely-unlikely-macros.patch profile-likely-unlikely-macros-tidy.patch profile-likely-unlikely-macros-fix.patch profile-likely-unlikely-macros-fix-2.patch fix-gcc-3x-w-likely-profiling.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html